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Friday, October 31, 2014

Hi everyone! Can you believe tomorrow is Nov. 1st?! I have a lot of friends and family members with birthdays in November. I love the Monthly Moments stamps by Papertrey Ink. I made a bunch of these cards just switching out the leaves.

I stamped the leaf using the amazing Tomato Vine Kaleidacolor ink pad. Love the gradient color you get with these ink pads. I followed the sketch at The Paper Players.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

My card was inspired by a card Catherine made on StampNation, she was inspired by a card Sue made and shared on StampNation. Sue's card was inspired by a card Allison made for the class.

Whew! How is that for inspiration?!!!

Catherine embossed images in gold on kraft cardstock. It looked amazing and I knew I had to try it. Instead of embossing in gold, I used my Golden Glitz, Delicata ink pad and sponged through my Poinsettia stencil. I am absolutely in LOVE with this gold ink pad. If you don't have it, I highly recommend it for your holiday cards or any cards. It is amazing! This photo doesn't capture the shimmer but in person it really sparkles and shines. I apologize for the photo too, the weather has been very gray here so my picture quality is not the greatest.

Monday, October 27, 2014

This week Lesley challenges us to use snowflakes, dry embossing and neutral colors on our card.

Isn't this graphic beautiful? I used my embossing folder by Stampin' Up! for the bottom half of my Very Vanilla panel. I used the vanilla, velvet ribbon and the snowflake die from Wplus9 in kraft. The button is from my button sizzlet. The sentiment is from Verve's Merry & Bright.

Monday, October 20, 2014

I was inspired by this card and wanted to use the Holiday Frames die by Simon Says. The star is from Bright and Beautiful by Stampin' Up! I love the colors blue and orange together so decided they were perfect for this challenge using non-traditional colors.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

I
am thrilled to be contributing to the newest Online Card Class with
Catherine Pooler and 9 other amazing designers. The class is called A
Very Trendy Holiday 2.0!

We are thrilled, proud and EXCITED to finally be releasing this class to you so you can get ready for your holidays this year.

Here are a few details that you need to know:

The doors to A Very Trendy Holiday 2.0 opens on Wednesday, Oct. 22nd to StampNation members with a $10 off coupon code. Not a member yet? Click here to get started now.

AVTH 2.0 opens its doors wide on Thursday, Oct. 23rd at 1pm EDT.

With FIFTEEN video tutorials,
written tutorials and more than 50 samples to inspire you, this class
will have you running to grab your ink and stamps and get started right
now on this year’s holiday cards. I hope you join so you don't miss out on all the fabulous inspiration and techniques that are being featured in the class!

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Hi everyone! I am back again today with yet another Christmas card. When I saw the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch! I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I purchased the connected circles die from Lil' Inker a while ago but, sadly it has been very neglected. It works perfectly for this sketch. My first thought was to use flowers in the circles. I was searching my stamps and found this snowflake from the Four Seasons stamp set by SU and it was perfect.

I also searched around for a color combo and found on Amy's blog that Jingle Belles is hosting a Pink Christmas card challenge in honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness month. I knew I had to play along. For every card that is linked up $2 is being donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation! I love pink and silver together on a Christmas card.

Monday, October 13, 2014

I was inspired to try to recreate the scene in the photo. I used my dies from Papertrey Ink. I love these little houses and the church up on the hillside. The sentiment is an older one from Papertrey Ink called Silent Night.

Monday, October 6, 2014

This week I am the challenge hostess. I challenge you to use neon colors on your Christmas card. Use a little or a lot, it is up to you. Use neon inks and/or papers. I can't wait to see all the neon Christmas in the gallery! Have fun!

I decided to just use neon paper on my card. I have all the Neon ink pad colors from Imagine crafts but didn't feel led to use them for this challenge. I used the Pine Trio background & outline dies from Memory box using the inlaid die cutting technique. The sentiment is from Ornament Banner Builder by My Favorite Things.

I hope you will join us this week to get a head start on your Christmas
cards for 2014. Make sure you check out the other DT members cards over
at the Merry Monday challenge blog.

As you know we have been celebrating WCMD on StampNation. We have been stamping around the world since Friday at 8am EDT. Our 10th destination is Stonehenge, UK.

Here is a peek at my card....

Members have 2 weeks to play along in these challenges for a chance to win prizes from 9 amazing sponsors. The challenges will NEVER close though, and members can play along days, weeks, months even a year from now.

Happy World Card Making Day everyone! Do you have any creative plans for the day? We have been celebrating since yesterday morning at 8am over on StampNation. Check out this post for more details.

This card is for the Hero Arts Holiday challenge in the White out category. I absolutely LOVE these geometric ornaments. Instead of coloring them in I used the back of each stamp to stamp in Neon colors. A great way to add color without coloring. My sentiment was embossed using Black Sparkle embossing powder. I love that this powder matches the Black sparkle paper I found at my local craft store.

Friday, October 3, 2014

Happy Friday friends! I am popping in with a quick sneak peek of my card kicking off our WCMD event on StampNation. This year we are celebrating all weekend long so that wherever you are in the World you can participate with us. Our first challenge went up this morning.

Here is a peek at my card...

This year's celebration is taking us to iconic places around the world. Any guesses on which iconic place we were to be inspired by?

Not only are there prizes from a huge list of amazing sponsors but some of the sponsors are even giving StampNation members only, a discount shopping code. WOOT!!!

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

World Card Making Day is almost here! StampNation celebrates this special day in the most amazing way!!! We have a HUGE event and this year is no different! This year there will be challenges with Dream Team inspiration posted every 4 hours from Friday at 8am EDT through Sunday at 7am. So no matter where you live, you will be able to participate ON WCMD! Awesome, right?!